Word: mucous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nation to ban urea formaldehyde foam, the largest selling type of blown insulation. Public Health Commissioner Alfred Frechette says that "we find there is significant correlation between the foam insulation and such formaldehyde-linked illnesses as respiratory difficulties, eye and skin irritations, headaches, vomiting and severe irritation to the mucous membranes." Massachusetts estimates that some 7,000 houses in the state?and many more across the country?are insulated with formaldehyde. The cost of removing the stuff, where it can be removed, might run from $14,000 to $20,000 per house. The foam industry has filed suit protesting...
Flaky Skin. Close's mixture of size and precision is disorienting. Faces would look like this to a louse, if lice could scan them: a fleshy landscape, dried salt pans of flaky skin, monstrous glittering folds of mucous membrane, each wrinkle a canyon, the nose a mountain, lakes for eyes. The effect is both real and hallucinatory at once, and it has a lot to offer on how we scan, decode and see the most ordinary configurations. Held in memory. Close's por traits marginally change every face one glimpses in the subway, or in a mirror...
...hold unusual promise: it is a small (two-inch diameter), doughnut-shaped flexible plastic ring that a woman can insert into her vagina. It prevents conception, not by blocking the sperm, as does the diaphragm, but by releasing a small steady trickle of steroids into the bloodstream through the mucous membranes of the vagina. The quantity is sufficient to prevent ovulation, says Mishell, but should be low enough to avoid the Pill's potentially hazardous side effects...
...spinnable and absorbant. It is so fine--about 2000 times finer than human hair--that once imbedded in the lung tissue, a fiber of asbestos will remain there indefinitely, unless it happened to have settled high enough in the respiratory tract so that it could be removed via the mucous. If it is imbedded below this point, the body can neither remove asbestos fiber nor destroy...
...Martin Schulkind and Elia Ayoub of the College of Medicine of the University of Florida have used transfer factor to treat effectively chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis, a severe fungal infection of the skin and mucous membranes; others have used it successfully to treat agammaglobulinemia and Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome, a hereditary defect that leaves its victims unable to resist certain infections...